Rev. Joseph Lowery in hospital for dehydration
Atlanta civil rights icon Rev. Joseph Lowery is in the hospital.
His daughter Cheryl Lowery, executive director of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute, confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday night that her 93-year-old father is resting comfortably while being treated for dehydration.
“We are grateful for the love and prayers that sustain us all,” Cheryl Lowery said. “We are also grateful for the privacy we so need at this time. He is progressing.”
Lowery broke his hip in a fall in a California hotel room last month. He was in Santa Barbara for Oprah Winfrey's "Celebrating SELMA and the Legends Who Paved the Way" gala.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
